My first working netcode! (Patreon)

 Hey guys,

Sorry I've been silent for a while.  I have been busy working on Blazing Strike, but I still feel bad that I couldn't update you on a regular basis :(  With that said, here's a pretty big chunk of feature that I have been working on.

What you see here is a custom netcode that I implemented.  This feature is being worked on for Blazing Strike's network mode, and it connects via P2P (peer-to-peer), like every other popular fighting game netcode does, and has the following mechanisms:

- rollback (ROLLBACK!)

- deterministic step/state

- reliable UDP

https://twitter.com/markarotGC/status/1079770696111157249

I really want to avoid incorporating input delays if at all possible, but I guess there's a reason why even GGPO uses it. We'll see about this.

I plan on trying out GGPO after I'm done with my own netcode, and compare the two.  I really hope mine could hold its ground, so I don't have to pay like $10k for a GGPO license :P

Anyway, I will be going back to working on artwork more often starting 2019 :)

Happy New Year!